Wi-Fi In a SIM Card 126
gaijin_ writes "What if, rather than buying a MiFi or using a Wi-Fi router app like those on the Palm Pre Plus, you could stick a SIM in any device and have a shared 3G connection? That's what Sagem Orga and Telefonica are promising: they've developed the SIMFi, a USIM card with an embedded Wi-Fi radio that, when dropped into any standard handset, can share the 3G HSPA connection with various Wi-Fi clients as an instant access point."
solves the wrong problem (Score:5, Insightful)
This is a technical "solution" to a non-technical problem. The ability exists today but is predominately blocked by the cell phone providers.
This quote from the article shows how deluded these people are: "it seems likely that carriers would give the SIMFi away as long as you took out some sort of mobile data contract". If that was the case then I'd be able to use tethering on my iphone RIGHT NOW.
Sure, neat technical hack. Nice miniaturization there. But making this functionality available in a smaller form factor isn't the problem.
Ah crap (Score:3, Insightful)
It has a HUGE impact. Now, when you go to a tech convention, instead of having crappy wireless at the convention center, you will have 5000 people, all carrying their own access points, trying to use the same dozen channels! Horray!
Re:Progress. (Score:3, Insightful)
What silly idiot comes modding this a troll? Shouldn't you be modding comments that matter and comments people will actually read? Well. I'm glad I can keep one bad mod occupied down here in the dungeons. Mod this down too, I dare you. It means you won't get to touch as many comments that might matter.